244 ACANTHACER, [Strobilanthes. 
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Tenasserim 
RemakKs.—Wood very pale brown, rather heavy, close-grained. 
2. S. Simonsii, T. And.—An evergreen shrub up to 12 ft. high, 
with a simple stem up to 3-4 ft. length by 6 in. girth, the crown 
preading and flat, branches more or less glandular-pubescent; 
leaves obliquely lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, at the unequal base 
tapering into a glandular-puberulous petiole }-1 in. long, acuminate, 
4-6 in. long, serrate, membranous, above sprinkled with short hairs, 
beneath puberulous ; flowers blue, forming a leafy-bracted glandu- 
lar-puberulous head on a longer or shorter peduncle, solitary or 
in the axils of the leaves and shorter than them; 
outer bracts leafy and large, lanceolate and bluntish acuminate, 
glandular-pubescent ; bractlets linear-lanceolate, about 6 lin. long, 
glandular-puberulous and ciliolate; calyx-segments 6-7 lin. long, 
linear, narrowed towards the base, ciliate ; corolla blue, about twice 
as long as the calyx, funnel-shaped, glabrous; capsules glabrous, 
nearly as long as the calyx-segments, 4-seeded. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Martaban down to Upper 
Tenasserim ; also in those round Kambala toung of the Yomah.—Fl. Feb.—Fr. 
Feb.—s.—SS.=SiS. Metam. 
RemarKs.— Wood white (the heartw ullary), rather light, very soft, 
but close-grained, of a fine “ilky fibre Soy 1 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests all over Pegu and Martaban down to 
—_#. Jan.-May.—s.—SS.=siS. Metam. 
_ 3. §. lamio 
slightly 4-cornered or almost terete, glandular-puberulous or pubes- 
cent ; leaves ovate, rotundate at base, tapering into a short petiole, 
acuminate, 3-4 in, long, coarsely crenate-toothed, membranous, glab- 
Has.—Not uncommon in the tropical forests of the Martaban hills, at 2,000 - 
to 4,000 ft. elevation.—Fl, March, = S.-M. — as 
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ee ha uminate, ta g 
cent glabrescent petiole 4-14 in. long, bluntish toothed, 
